AI agents will become the next mushroom cloud in organizations and most companies aren’t ready. Denis O’Shea, founder of Mobile Mentor, joins the Transform Now podcast to share zero trust architecture lessons for the agentic era, starting with his own company’s honest mistakes.
In this episode:
– The five workstreams that fix it: use cases, data security, user empowerment, agent frameworks, ROI
– Why personal agents are harmless but orphaned enterprise agents are a ticking time bomb
– The “Janet problem”: when the agent’s creator leaves and nobody knows how it works
– Why enterprise agents need service accounts, DevOps discipline, and pro development
– Gartner’s prediction: 100 agents per employee and why we need an agent control plane
– Data flows: the next frontier of data security posture management
– The cost problem: credits, tokens, overages, and deciphering vendor billing
– Where AI ownership should sit (hint: not with the CIO alone)
